PSF Meeting Minutes for 2012-09-12

The Python Software Foundation

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors

September 12, 2012

A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of
Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet
Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 CEST/ 12:00 EDT, on September 12 2012. Van Lindberg
presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes.

All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-Y‚opposed-N‚
abstentions-A; e.g. "5-1-2" means "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2
abstentions").

The following members of the Board of Directors (10 of ll) were present at
the meeting: Van Lindberg, Marc-Andre Lemburg, David Mertz, Tim Peters,
Brian Curtin, Andrew Kuchling, Jessica McKellar, Doug Napoleone,
Martin v. Löwis, and Jesse Noller. Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser
(Treasurer) and Ewa Jodlowska (Secretary/Administrator).

RESOLVED, that the PSF creates a new award, the "Distinguished Service Award", to be given to members of the Python community who have added significant value to the Python ecosystem. Each recipient will receive an award of USD 5,000.

RESOLVED, that the PSF gives a Community Service award to Simon Cross for his code contributions (Genshi and its port to Python 3, among others), for his work with the Cape Town Python Users Group, and his work leading the organization of the first PyCon South Africa.